Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.
You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're fr...
At least I rescued your poor hot dog.
You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.
